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On Memorial Day, keep in mind these books about soldiers in wartime, says Sen. John McCain
By SEN. JOHN MCCAINMay 26, 2007; Page P6
For Whom The Bell Tolls
By Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1940
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
By Edward Gibbon
1776-88
This Kind of War
By T.R. Fehrenbach
Macmillan, 1963
Hell in a Very Small Place
By Bernard B. Fall
Lippincott, 1966
All Quiet on the Western Front
By Erich Maria Remarque
Little, Brown, 1929
7 comments:
Three of these books (Hemingway, Gibbon, and Remarque) were required readings when I was in 10th grade (World Literature class)... Heh... I love Remarque..
Good grief.
I don't know if our kids even read Hemingway any more.
10th grade.
I've read only the Hemingway.
I was educated by wolves.
I read none of these in school. I'm not sure I'd heard of Hemingway before college.
But I was required to read Go Ask Alice in the 11th grade.
I was educated by slugs.
I think A Bright and Shining Lie could make McCains' list of best war books. But that's Vietnam and I don't think the nation is ever going to be ready to talk much about that war.
But that's Vietnam and I don't think the nation is ever going to be ready to talk much about that war.
Well sure.
After we're all dead.
Actually, I always had the opposite impression; it seems like we never stop talking about that war. Korea seems to be the one that nobody ever talks about.
Which, incidentally, would seem to be a great reason to pick up Fehrenbach's book. I would be tempted to say it should be required reading for HS seniors, except everybody knows that HS history ends on on 6 June 1944.
What does it say about me that I've read 4 of the 5, but none while I was in school?
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